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invisibleicewands · 8 months ago

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“In every room I go into, every office, every institution, people tell me, this is what we’re doing to encourage more working-class writers. They reel off all the things they’re doing, and it sounds impressive, it sounds amazing. And you think: if all these people are doing all this, WHY ARE THINGS NOT CHANGING FASTER? WHAT IS GETTING IN THE WAY?”

Under the hot, bright lights of a packed-out auditorium at the 2024 London Book Fair, Michael Sheen is getting angry. His is an unthreatening, crowd-rousing kind of angry, but still, in an appropriate way – he’s mad.

The actor and philanthropist is speaking on a panel convened to discuss A Writing Chance, the programme co-founded by the actor with New Writing North and Northumbria University that helps working-class writers enter the writing industries. So far, the programme has been successful. The theme emerging on the panel is, if changes have been made in some areas, what’s holding things back in others? And what cultural changes might have to come before we solve the problem?

“You have to admit there’s a fundamental conflict between the system that’s set up, and what we’re trying to achieve,” says Michael. “I don’t know what the whole answer to that is, other than revolution.”

It says a lot about the mood in the room – and, we suspect, the rest of the country – that the laughs prompted by this conclusion feel rather approving. We firmly believe that elites have been hogging and hoarding opportunity for too long now. The support for A Writing Chance confirms that many, many people agree.

The initiative was launched in 2021, with 11 unpublished writers awarded places on a programme of support and mentoring. One, Tom Newlands, publishes his first novel this summer; another, Maya Jordan, signed a deal at the book fair. A new cohort will be selected soon, with the programme now supported by the Joseph Rowntree Foundation, the Esmée Fairbairn Foundation, Michael Sheen, the Charlotte Aitken Trust, Faber & Faber, The Daily Mirror, Substack, Audible, with research supported by AHRC, Northumbria University, Bath Spa University and York St John University.

For the London Book Fair panel, Michael is joined by Professor Katy Shaw from Northumbria University, plus Tracey Markham, head of UK at Audible, Farrah Storr, head of writer partnerships at Substack, and the Huddersfield-based novelist Sunjeev Sahota. Katy and Michael begin by reflecting on the successes of the first completed programme: writers emboldened and published, policymakers in the Houses of Parliament briefed and, most importantly, great writing exemplifying the talent out there waiting to be discovered. “What came in was just way beyond anything we had hoped for really,” says Michael. “And there was a sense of revelation, the feeling you were seeing into worlds that have just been closed off, into experiences I had never thought about.”

Ideas about how to give working-class writers more confidence and access to publishing are peppered through the hour-long conversation: a creative curriculum in schools; intervening with gifted people at younger ages, like sports coaches; encouraging more people to take advantage of digital platforms, even if printed-book authorship remains the ultimate goal. Around halfway through, Sunjeev makes a brilliantly clear-eyed analysis of what being working class really means, and how it relates to identity politics. At the same time, he provides a devastatingly simple explanation of why working-class writers need support.

“Publishing is an elite space, but it’s quite a diverse space in terms of people’s racialised or sexualised identities. However, it’s not at all diverse it comes to people’s economic backgrounds, or family income. Indeed, many of the non-white people I encounter in publishing are often from just as comfortably-off backgrounds as their white counterparts.

The creative industries, he says, have tended to treat class as being another cultural identity, as if class should be considered in the same way that we might talk about race, gender, or sexuality. “But I think a more universal, class-first politics will do more for the weakest members across all identities than any identity-first kind of politics. I find that taking an identity-first approach just tends to benefit the elites within the identities.”

Lest anyone doubt the existence of a market for work originating outside the elites, the extremely upbeat Tracey is on hand to reassure them. Audible attracts a notably diverse audience, with large black and Asian listenerships, and a high proportion of young men. To satisfy this audience, the old-style audiobook, with its middle- and highbrow titles and Received Pronunciation narration, has been overhauled in favour of books more suited to audience tastes, and accents.

“Our customers really want accents! We spend a lot of time working with voice agents to widen access to the audio-narration industry. I think what’s super-important now is that your accent is not prohibitive – if you have a Welsh accent, say, that doesn’t mean you can only read stories set in Wales.”

Tracey stresses there is “so much more to be done” to widen socio-economic diversity in the whole publishing industry. But although it might still be a case of taking “baby steps”, a wonderful thing about books is their power to drive change elsewhere. “You know, it’s hard to explain to someone that’s not from the UK how much your accent kind of signifies to people when they first meet you. And with voice, we can kind of break down a lot of those barriers, and actually encourage it and welcome [diversity].”

There’s a similar note of flexibility and responsiveness to audience needs in Farrah’s account of what Substack offers. The relationship between digital and print is always evolving, and in her vision, it’s a question of the one complementing the other. Printed books still have more prestige than publication on digital platforms, but the latter can help offset the material challenges associated with the former, she argues. Echoing Sunjeev, she points that “the problem for people from a working-class background is that your advance gets paid in separate lump sums. People feel, I don’t have a regular income, I can’t make this work, I might end up falling out of the writer ecosystem.

“So, on Substack, we say, well, okay, you’re writing the book, but you’re probably going to have thousands of words leftover. So just put them on Substack and talk about the novel at the same time.”

Lots of people she works with end up making liveable incomes and building readerships for their work, which ultimately is what keeps them in the game. It’s a reminder that we shouldn’t necessarily define “writing” as the production of traditional forms such as novels and plays.

No one at this event – the queue for which was so long that dozens were unable to squeeze inside – believed all the barriers facing working-class writers would be dismantled any time soon. Few, though, can have left without believing that A Writing Chance has begun the job – and that that job is worthwhile.

Wrapping up, Michael recalls someone from the inaugural group who told him that in their community, becoming a writer seemed about as likely as becoming an astronaut.

“They said that there was no chance of it. They said, ‘I didn’t know anybody else who lived where I live who was a writer, so I didn’t know how to begin, or where to start. It was like saying I want to go into space.’ But that changed for them.

“And of course, now, there are all these wonderful spacemen.”

#Michael Sheen #The London Book Fair #interview #A Writing Chance

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denimbex1986 · 2 months ago

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'We live in a world, it seems, where every single thing anyone ever does gets criticized and argued about no matter how absolutely fantastic and incredible things are. No matter what a company or someone does, there’s always going to be someone upset, irritated, annoyed, or whatever about the product and why is X getting a release but not Y and so forth. The conversation is simply exhausting, especially when it’s about Criterion, who have released 80+ 4K titles so far (93 by the end of the year) and not a singular release has been a miss. So, whether it is the incoming 8 ½ (1963) that is getting the 4K treatment or one of the very best of 2023 in Andrew Haigh’s All of Us Strangers, let’s just celebrate the excellence that Criterion puts out and celebrate one of the most beautifully heartbreaking films of the twenty-first century which boasts some of the best extras in a Criterion in *ages*...

The film focuses on struggling screenwriter Adam (Andrew Scott) while he finds a new outlet to grieve over losing his parents 30 years ago. He is drawn to his childhood home to process the loss while writing his new screenplay and sees the ghosts of his parents, Mum and Dad (Claire Foy and Jamie Bell respectively). While working on his screenplay, dealing with the grief, and revisiting his childhood home, he has a chance encounter with Harry (Paul Mescal). The two of these characters live in the same apartment complex and, during a fire alarm, start a budding relationship, one that takes off in an unexpected way. Truly a way to capture the chances of meeting a love in a chance encounter, their relationship blossoms as Adam tries to navigate his new screenplay, seeing his parents through his writing and mind, and balancing his new found relationship with Harry.

There is something simplistic and beautiful about their relationship and character builds that just strikes the heartstrings in more ways than one. However, as the film progresses, the script penned by Haigh (Lean on Pete) based on the novel by Taichi Yamada not only breaks the audience it, completely shatters them. With every word spoken, and every action taken, All of Us Strangers wiggles its way into one’s heart, nestles in there for the rest of your life, then explodes from the inside, shattering one’s heart into a literal million pieces. This movie hits the audience like a ton of bricks, and nothing can prepare audiences for the emotional devastation.

Now we dive into the nitty gritty. I first saw this as a screener provided by Disney at home, and was completely immersed and taken aback by how gorgeous this film was. I was so blown away, in fact, that I went with a friend to see it in theatres so I could audibly sob and disturb people around me with my emotional devastation. The theatre presentation was absolutely stunning and an equally immersive experience, and that was just in the small VIP (needing massive renovations) auditorium. Then, what hit me falling piano, similarly to the movie, was that this was never going to get a home release. It was a Searchlight presentation and, since their acquisition by Disney, home releases were never certain. I even *almost* bought the UK 4K because I knew I needed this in my collection, but as I was about to check out, I found out that All of Us Strangers was getting the Criterion treatment and I needed it, immediately.

The 4K on this is presented in Dolby Vision HDR and absolutely shines; astonishingly the best it has looked across all three of my watches. I know that sounds a little silly on a 2023 release, but the colors and vibrancy of this film truly shine with the warm 4K digital mastering. Another thing Criterion excels at is their bonus features, and the essay from film critic Guy Lodge may be the best essay, or at least one of, that Criterion has ever put out. If you’re not a fan of reading the essays, I cannot highly recommend enough reading this specific one. Moreover, there is more than an hour of special features on this edition, and between the conversations between Haigh and Michael Koresky and the interview with the cinematographer Jamie D. Ramsay (See How They Run), every faucet of information is tapped here. Combine that with the behind-the-scenes documentary and featurettes and everything one could want to know about the making of All of Us Strangers is truly answered.

The 4K criterion of All of Us Strangers is an absolute hands-down must for anyone who appreciates Haigh’s quintessential masterpiece. There is no question that this is the best the movie has ever looked, and not relying on a streaming service to have the movie available to watch at your leisure is the ultimate deciding factor. There is so much love, heart, and soul placed into this home release that it truly is a no brainer to have this incredible movie in your collection. Do not wait, do not stop, just go to your closest computer or store that sells physical media and assure yourself that you will obtain and own one of the best modern romantic, heartbreaking movies of all time in All of Us Strangers...'

#All of Us Strangers #Criterion Collection #Andrew Haigh #Andrew Scott #Paul Mescal #Claire Foy #Jamie Bell #Lean on Pete #Taichi Yamada #Searchlight #Guy Lodge #Michael Koresky #Jamie D. Ramsay

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toc-the-elder · 9 months ago

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The NHS has just changed its rules, and is now banning the prescribing hormone blockers to children. Children who will suffer unimaginable mental distress without them. As someone who was denied gender affirming care as a child, I can attest to the lifelong mental health problems that have come with experiencing a puberty I did not consent to and did not sign up for that will forever mark me as visibly and audibly trans. I couldn't think of anything so cruel as to force someone to go through that.

This decision flies in the face of plenty of documented medical research in multiple nations that providing gender affirming care to young people universally has better longterm outcomes for those that undertake it. To claim, as the NHS has, that there is "no evidence" of such benefits is willfully ignorant. They also state there is no evidence of any harm done, but it's strange how they default to the position that fucks over trans people, isn't it? Puberty blockers have been in use for literally decades, I think if they had any significant health concerns, you better believe the TERFs and transphobes wouldn't shut the fuck up about it, but weirdly, the best they can come up with is that there are "no benefits."

No benefits, you say? This might be a radical thought, but I think having less dead kids is a benefit, no? Less kids self harming, feeling ashamed of their bodies as they change in ways they barely understand? This isn't just run of the mill teenager body issues. From my own experience, my body is covered in scars because I couldn't deal with my body becoming something I didn't choose. Even if prescribing hormone blockers prevented just one child from doing the same, I would consider that a net positive. But the NHS wants dead kids, apparently.

I also find it fascinating that even centrist rags like The Guardian give endless mic time to TERFs like Maya Forstater (who is not a doctor) and chose to close their article on her words, and offered to take the words of one(?) opposing viewpoint. Gee, it's almost like centrists aren't centrists at all.

This change is grotesque, targeted, and dangerous.

To cap it off, I would like to remind you that there are currently less than 100 young people in the UK being prescribed hormone blockers.

The NHS fundamentally changed its rules all in the name of fucking over less than 100 vulnerable children from a minority group.

This country means to kill us all.

#trans #transgender #cw transphobia #cw gender dysphoria #trans rights #lgbt #lgbtq #lgbtqia

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saintmeghanmarkle · 1 year ago

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Meghan Markle thrilled as she nears multimillion-dollar make-or-break deal: report Page Six by u/Feisty_Energy_107

Meghan Markle ‘thrilled’ as she nears multimillion-dollar ‘make-or-break’ deal: report Page Six Archive / Unarchived (for the comments) (ETA: you can see comments on both but there are more on the unarchived section.)So the day after Family Guy makes fun of them for being the grifters that they are, Meghan's PR release this. Her sense of timing is just sooo obvious!Quote:Meghan Markle is “thrilled” about being on the verge of landing her first major deal since parting ways with Spotify, according to a new report. The Duchess of Sussex, 42, is said to be inching closer toward signing on the dotted line for a multimillion-dollar contract with Amazon’s podcast production partner, Audible. A source told Closer UK (via the Mirror) that the new venture has the power to “make or break her Hollywood dream.” “Word of mouth is spreading that it will lead to a huge payout — even bigger than the millions Spotify splashed out,” an insider told the outlet. “And Meghan is thrilled that she’ll be in the company of Michelle and Barack Obama [who signed a deal with Audible in 2022].” “Hollywood’s power brokers will be aware of just how [Markle and Prince Harry] fumbled on the Spotify deal, so they fear that getting dropped twice would be the end of their brand, as nobody would trust they could deliver the content. The stakes are extremely high.”----------------However, an Audible spokesperson told Page Six Thursday that there is no truth to the report and they aren’t in negotiations with Markle. post link: https://ift.tt/o1YCkNx author: Feisty_Energy_107 submitted: October 26, 2023 at 11:59PM via SaintMeghanMarkle on Reddit

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innerdreamercollective · 17 days ago

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The Succubus’s Prize (A Deal With a Demon, Book 4) by @AuthorKateeRobert

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Belladonna doesn’t know if a person can die from guilt, but she’s giving it her best shot. All her life, she’s done what she needed to in order to survive, but in recent years, the cost only seems to skyrocket…until someone innocent gets hurt. That’s why she made her deal with the demon. To right the wrong she committed.

But when she’s auctioned off to Rusalka, a powerful and devious succubus, it’s nothing like she expected. She’s…taken care of. And if she’s put to work and expected to fulfill every part of her bargain, Belladonna is only too happy to let someone else shoulder the responsibility and make decisions for her.

Too bad Rusalka isn’t in the market for a servant. She wants a full partner. If Belladonna can’t release her guilt and step into that role… Things may be over even before they begin.

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mi6011dhanushkanth · 22 days ago

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I've listened to nearly all of the Oxford Sparks podcasts, including "THE BIG QUESTIONS," and I've taken note of a few that caught my eye.

1.Why am I killing my house plants? So the way that I like to explain this is that we as humans, if we find ourselves in a big deluge like a swimming pool, we’re able to move and go to the top of the water for air. But plants aren’t able to do that. If they’re rooted, they’re stuck where they’re rooted. They can move between generations, but a certain generation can’t necessarily move. So the plant has to adapt the way it grows to cope with different amounts of water. So a tropical plant and a desert plant have evolved completely different ways of dealing with water and so if you underwater a tropical plant, it might wilt and die. But a desert plant, if you overwater, that might have the same effect.

2.Can we talk to bees? So, we know quite a lot about how honey bees communicate with each other. One of the ways that they do that is through something called the waggle dance, which is a special little dance routine that they do to tell other bees the exact directions to some sort of, you know, flower source. Something delicious to eat. So that’s one kind of communication that we know about. We know also that insects communicate using pheromones. But I’m specifically looking at bumblebees, which are the cute, fuzzy bees that we find in many places in the world. And in the UK, we have a bunch of different species, which is really exciting. And we don’t know as much about what bumblebee communication looks like or how they’re communicating with each other in the nest using vibrations or other kinds of audible sorts of signals.

3.Does banning smoking work? I think there could be and there has been some kind of modelling by the Department of Health that has said that with this policy of raising the age of sale year on year, that we could see very, very low numbers of children smoking or young people smoking by 2040. It’s unlikely to be completely eradicated while cigarettes are available in some form because not everybody goes into a shop and buys cigarettes. But the thing is, as well as just stopping people from buying cigarettes, what this policy will do is basically denormalise smoking. It means that less people will be smoking. It’s just seen as less of a normal thing in our society to smoke, which we’ve seen happen over the years, and this is one of the reasons why youth prevalence has dropped. But any policies like this are just going to make it seem more unusual to be smoking as a young person.

4.Would you want to meet an alien? Well, no, and it’s a bit of a sad story, isn’t it? But, you know, at some level, we’re not, are we? I mean, if you look at… Nature is red in tooth and claw for a reason. That statement, “Nature is red in tooth and claw,” that statement is a fact, and it’s red because of iron. It’s the iron in the blood that makes it red. It’s a very rare resource now in the environment, compared to how life kicked off with.

And I guess that other aliens would probably have gone through the same sort of pathway. They might want iron, and where’s the most iron around right now? It’s in you and me, it’s in organisms.

5.How do you convert CO2 into jet fuel? Okay. So CO2 is a very stable molecule. Very low activity. And it needs hydrogen to react with CO2. In theory, they can react. Like a boy and a girl that wants dating. In theory they can, but because they’re separated by a river you have to build a bridge for them to meet. So the catalyst is like a bridge and you must find the right catalyst for CO2 to react with hydrogen to make aviation fuel or other chemicals. So this catalyst is very similar to a bridge. You must find a very good catalyst for CO2 to be used.

6.How has life expectancy changed after the pandemic? If you take a long view for the last 200 years, the progress has just been remarkable. We can expect to live twice as long as our ancestors, which is really amazing when you think about it. But there have been some signs of trouble on the horizon, especially in the US in about the last 20 years, where life expectancy improvements had really slowed down and even gone a bit backwards in the US. From 2014 to 2017, they saw declines, which is really unusual.

You know, in the last couple hundred years, we’ve seen this steady march of improvements of life expectancy except for, you know, the 1918 flu and the two world wars. So to see this unexpected decline in the US just, kind of, come out of nowhere was really startling to a lot of people. And the UK is doing better in absolute terms than the US. 7.Is the metaverse doomed? Well, there are many metaverses that are cropping up, insofar as we can think of any 3D space as potentially being immersive. So, Fortnite is a classic example now, where people go, and they both will play videogames – you know, running around, shooting, and zapping, and whatever – but also engage in trade, engage in, like, go to even libraries. There are special events that will happen. Ariana Grande, for example, did a really big thing in the Fortnite metaverse.

Minecraft is an example of a metaverse, where people go and they build things in a whole bunch of different servers. The servers, kind of, link together, and if you were to walk around with a headset, you may think of it as a metaverse.

So, does Facebook have a stranglehold? Not in the slightest. What Facebook does have is a lot of clout, and has spent a lot of money on their metaverse, or horizon worlds, as well as the design of avatars and their considerations of things like what would make a place safe, as well as what might make it profitable.

8.What makes the human brain so special? It’s pure anatomy. So, in this case what the sequence is sensitive to is the movement of water through the brain. And the movement of water through the brain doesn’t go everywhere unconstrained, it is constrained by the myelin, which is sort of the fatty tissue, the fatty substance around your white matter pathways, and that helps the conduction speed.

So, in certain diseases where that fatty substance is degrading, like multiple sclerosis, the communication between different parts of the brain isn’t very good anymore, but it has the advantage for us that it also doesn’t allow water through.

So if we can just find a way to track the movement of water through the brain, we have a way to reconstruct these tracks.

9.What is green steel? I could start comparing materials, but just to give you an example, when you speak about any material, one of the properties that we use is Young’s modulus.

Young’s modulus is basically telling how much your material will deform if you put a certain stress, a certain pressure on that material. That number for steel is 210,000 megapascal. It doesn’t tell you anything at this stage, but if you take aluminium, for instance, just that number for aluminium is 70,000. That number for concrete is 30,000 and for timber, it’s 10,000.

So we’re not talking about small differences here. We’re talking about multiplication factors between materials. That is why steel is- well, that is one of the reasons why steel is so incredible and irreplaceable.

So green steel would mean steel that has been produced based mostly on green energy, such as green electricity, for instance. So taking a very simple example, green steel would be steel that is produced through the electric arc furnace and that electric arc furnace would be using green electricity.

So hydropower, the sun, et cetera. Obviously, in this case, the environmental impacts that are associated to production of that steel are very low.

10.How does a pandemic end? Unfortunately not. I think one thing which people will find unsettling is one of the common responses that we see at the end of epidemics in the past is people saying, “This is not the end,” and waiting for what they call the ‘next wave’.

At the end of the 1918 influenza epidemic, actually what we see is the most common response to the end of an epidemic is waiting for the next outbreak to happen. Of course, it’s only when, many years later, it doesn’t happen, then people finally, retrospectively, can conclude: “Okay, the epidemic actually ended.” Sometimes they even conclude: “Okay, the epidemic actually ended 100 years ago.”

Unfortunately, (Laughter) one of the problems with being a historian is you realise just how difficult it is to predict the future, but at the same time, I think, we should take some reassurance in knowing that the end process is meant to be messy and that we should also think about what that means in terms of having a lot of patience and tolerance for people who might have different understandings of the end process than we do.

11.Why do we develop bad habits? That’s a very good question, and one we’re trying to study. There are the habits as we think of them, which is the colloquial one, the one that we use in everyday life, which is just how everyone talks about a habit: you’re doing the same thing, over, and over, and over again. You’re not paying attention to it, and you don’t think about it.

In science, we try and define them as actions that you do all the time, when you’re not even thinking about what the action is causing. So, the food is in front of you. You keep eating, even though you’re full, because you’re having a conversation with someone. Or you open your phone and you look at your Messenger app, even though that wasn’t what you were planning on doing. That’s what a habit is. It’s when you stop paying attention to what comes next.

It’s not easy. Habits themselves aren’t really good or bad. It’s the consequences of the action that tells you whether or not it’s a good habit or bad habit. Sometimes, a lot of things can start as a good habit, like exercising regularly, and it can turn into a bad habit: you exercise even when you’ve got work to do, because it’s such a habit to get up and go.

In science we tend to focus on good habits rather than bad, but that’s just because it’s easier to do positive outcomes than negative outcomes, in an ethical sense. But any behaviour that’s happening over and over again is a habit, so whether it’s good or bad.

12.How do you tackle hate speech one emoji at a time? We stated research emoji-based hate back in January. But hate speech or abuse expressed in emoji really came to the forefront of public attention over the summer, and that was following the Euros 2020 Final.

And I don’t know how many listeners are football fans, but basically what happened is three members of England’s team, who missed their penalties in the final, were really subjected to this torrent of emoji-ed abuse. So, monkey emoji, banana emoji, watermelon emoji, were just some of the racist content reported by users on Instagram and Twitter.

But the real challenge here is understanding context. So, the same emoji can have wildly different implications, depending on how it’s used in a sentence. If you use the monkey in a tweet talking about your favourite animal at the zoo, then that’s perfectly legitimate content, there’s no problem with that.

But then if you use the same monkey emoji to racially abuse England’s football players, then that use of the emoji comes with this whole history of racial slurs, discrimination and lived depression.

So, that’s where the challenge really lies, is that there is really no such thing as a hateful emoji, in and of itself, it’s not that much of a black and white distinction. It’s really how the emoji is used in a sentence.

13.Can we build an eco-friendly aeroplane? So, we have to keep the temperature at a much lower value than the melting point of the metals, of course, because you want to have a high safety factor, right? You don’t want to reach the temperature or even go nearby that value. So, what we are trying to do is to develop advanced cooling technologies that basically use part of the air that is sucked upstream the engine and a part of that air is used to cool down the components, like the rotating blades.

So, we machine very small holes on the outer casing, but also on the blades of the turbine. This air that is cold, much colder than the air coming from the combustion chamber, is then spilled into these holes and the cold air is creating a film that is protecting the materials. So, imagine you have the hot stream coming from your combustion chamber that is, basically, instead of touching directly the surface of the blades, the surfaces are protected by a film of cold air that is spilled through the holes.

14.Are video games good for my mental health? Oh my God, no. So, we found that people who actually play more video games are more likely to say that they feel happy. It’s entirely possible that happier people or people who have been happier in the last two weeks, they just have more time in their lives to play ‘Animal Crossing’ and ‘Plants vs. Zombies’. It’s a correlation, and, you know, correlation does not equal causation here.

So, we’re doing the kinds of studies right now where we follow the same players over time and look at what happens when you increase or decrease your video gameplay, how that impacts changes in your health and wellbeing, but yes. No, we’re quite a far way away from me saying that we should prescribe video games or something silly like that.

15.How do you grow the perfect tomato? you can pick your tomatoes from seed or from transplants. And so in places with shorter growing seasons, it’s likely you would use a transplant, but obviously whenever you’re just picking a transplant or a seed, you have to pick the type of tomato you want, right?

And so you have to think if you want to do sauces or you’re thinking tomatoes for salad, maybe you’re drawing some tomatoes and also think of like what you look for in a tomato. Do you want something sweeter, something more acidic, more balanced? What colour tomato do you like?

There must be thousands of tomato varieties. And so the choice is yours.

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withleeknow · 4 months ago

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11?? publicly posting that?? oh I do feel like a gma + I have so many thoughts on this particular kpop gen. - it's the same niche of stans who restrict idols from living life bc they feel like they have ownership of them like?? there's having fun with the content out there (literally look at tumblr my asks ahem) and then there's living real life where this shit does not matter at all

(ryan is so darn cute but it's so hard to get my hands on line/kakao here in the UK - next time I travel to asia a plushie will be coming back with me 🫡)

o_o if you started writing 🐈‍⬛ I wld shortcircuit a little. even if it was super-unedited late-night brainrotting hcs to indulge in (absolutely not a request, just understand the impact this wld have on onigiri the microwave can only take so much ygm)

+ speaking of microwave, did you survive skz at gayo daejeon today? specifically tinyurl.com/3aadwd8p he. is. insane. like how?

+ this edit had me crying laughing vm.tiktok.com/ZGenaGYHx/ god I do have a type and it's paboracha-esque crackheads and if gyu's the prince then dk's the king

lastly this is completely non-kpop-related but had to send this to you speficially - it just popped up on my feed + I audibly laughed at the caption/content like “who's spying on me” tinyurl.com/rfrskxd2 literally 🍙 in the wild, ngl I wish I was here rn

back in our golden days (lol i sound like a certified grandma saying this) i used to keep up with most groups back then, but since i came back to kpop i’ve kept it to a limited few (it was only bts until late last year, then txt and skz and now mayhaps enhypen too) so i’m generally pretty clueless about everything else lol. but yeah i agree fans these days are so much more restrictive (they would not survive gen 2 when everyone was dating left and right and both male and female idols were publicly friends with each other). i do firmly believe it’s bc companies keep feeding fans’ delusions and market the idols as always available to cater to the fans’ every whim. jype really took it up a level with the skz lips cards - those are genuinely quite disturbing to me lol. but yeah, there are already so many weirdos out there we don’t need to breed more 🥴

i would def be v interested in (trying to) write for 🐈‍⬛ heheheh that kind of personality is my favorite to write for and i think that’s why i enjoy writing mimo and seungmin sm. dude with the cold exterior but deep down is actually the biggest softie <3 superior in this household lol

did anyone really survive gayo daejeon? he is disgusting he is an awful man who makes my life a living hell every day and i just have to deal with it 🫠 not to mention hyunjin. god, that was equally as awful. i also indulged myself in a little enhypen at gayo daejeon and i was properly looking at heeseung oop

LOL I SAW THIS EDIT TOO. he really is a god tier crackhead lmao. there’s a reason why he’s one of my favorite svt members 🤣

AN ONIGIRI SHRINE 🫨 bookmarking it as we speak bc i HAVE to see it when i go to japan 🤣 that’s amazing lol i can’t wait to get a little onigiri to carry with me wherever i go 🥹

#🍙 anon #answered

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Safe Enough: And Other Stories by Lee Child, narrated by Richard will be released on Audible US/UK and Kobo on August 29, 2024.

Synopsis : I was the guy who always found a way.

I was the guy that couldn't be stopped.

A drug-dealing hit man unburdens his fears to a stranger. An overlooked rookie cop is assigned to the department’s file room. A ruthless killer only kills bad guys. A methodical bodyguard quits his job when he’s outsmarted. A military mission is planned to perfection. . .

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RELEASE BLITZ Title: The Stranger Author: J.L. Perry Genre: Contemporary Romance Tropes: Billionaire, Grumpy/Sunshine, Fake Relationship Age Gap, Forced Proximity, Office Romance He’s Her Boss, Friends to Lovers Release Date: July 19, 2024

My GR: https://www.goodreads.com/review/show/6679477686?book_show_action=false

My Amazon: still waiting.....

BLURB SPENCER: When I woke to my phone ringing just after 5 am on a Sunday—my only day off—it was safe to say I wasn’t impressed. I answered the call with an abrupt, “What!” The audible gasp and berating that followed had me grumbling, “Someone better be dead, Mother.” “After the relationship status you were tagged in on Facebook, no less, I very well could be,” was her reply. Relationship status? With who? I immediately clicked on the app, only to find it was true. Delilah St. James had one of those faces that was hard to forget, and I knew I’d never laid eyes on this pretty blonde with beautiful blue eyes before. I could’ve let my assistant, PR company, or my lawyer deal with it, but against my better judgement, I clicked on the Messenger app. “Do I know you?” I typed. DELILAH: When my sister decided to post photos of her—on what was supposed to be my honeymoon—with my ex-fiancé on social media, I did something reckless and impulsive. I tagged her long-time crush, Spencer Prescott, in a fake relationship post. The last thing I expected was for him to reach out. I apologised profusely and told him I’d take it down immediately, briefly explaining why I had done it, and he replied with something unexpected. “Leave it up. What can it hurt?” Minutes later, I got a friend request from his mother … immediately inviting me to brunch. I only agreed to go, so I could tell her the truth to her face. What happened next was a domino effect that would change the course of all our lives. GOODREADS LINK: https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/214320620-the-stranger BOOKBUB LINK: https://www.bookbub.com/books/the-stranger-by-j-l-perry PURCHASE LINKS US: https://amzn.to/4f00rF8 UK: https://amzn.to/3zCGlkn CA: https://amzn.to/3zHwgmc AU: https://amzn.to/4eZcxys Universal: https://books2read.com/u/4jGLAY Free in Kindle Unlimited Also available Paperback: https://amzn.to/4bKi1dz Special Edition Paperback: https://amzn.to/3xM0Ryr AUTHOR BIO Jodi is a wife and mother, born in Sydney, Australia. She recently moved to a property in the Hunter Valley with her family for a tree change. Under the name of J. L. Perry, five of her books have been #1 Bestsellers; including BASTARD, JAX, HOOKER, NINETEEN LETTERS and THE BOSS. Foreign rights to some of her books have been sold to Germany, Hungary, Czech and France where BASTARD became a top #20 bestseller. Some of her other titles include, FINDING HIM, FINDING FOREVER, FINDING US, FINDING FORGIVENESS, THE THIEF, ONLY ONE NIGHT, MR. BLACK, MR. EDWARDS and THE STRANGER. NINETEEN LETTERS was debuted under the name of Jodi Perry through publishing giants, Hachette where it won the RWA Ruby Award for 2018 Romance Book of the Year. She also secured a publishing deal in the UK, with Sphere, an imprint company of Little Brown. AUTHOR LINKS Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/JodiLPerryAuthor Facebook Group: https://www.facebook.com/groups/1889439411280337 Goodreads (J.L. Perry): https://www.goodreads.com/author/show/7825921.J_L_Perry Goodreads (Jodi Perry): https://www.goodreads.com/author/show/6051057.Jodi_Perry Amazon: https://www.amazon.com/J-L-Perry/e/B00KZIJWX8 Twitter: https://twitter.com/JLPerryAuthor Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/jlperryauthor TikTok: https://www.tiktok.com/@jlperryauthor

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